🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸

The Tall Ships' iconic Transatlantic journey was a high profile demonstration of wind energy. But top honors for impact in 1976 MUST go to the 25-kw wind turbine erected at @umassamherst.bsky.social, whose builders went on to launch the modern wind industry.... spectrum.ieee.org/william-hero...

This is true, obvious and notably unremarked upon in US corporate media. bsky.app/profile/theb...

I’d like to report a guy who asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to cook up "11,780 votes” so he could win the state.🙋🏻‍♂️

Bolsonaro's contention that extra voting hours at selected polling stations gave Lula the win simply don't stand up to this smart graphic in the @nytimes.com today. Lula picked up support nearly everywhere to seize the second round vote. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Canada is the nicest evil empire by kilometers!

Energy and environment journo Peter Fairley's analysis on BC Green/BC NDP strategic voting. #BCelection

the craven hobbling of America's oldest magazine: www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com

On Monday, 7 years after filing suit, 🇨🇦 youth will finally get their day in court to challenge federal climate policy. 8 climate experts will back their contention that federal inaction trampled their future, violating their constitutional rights. #LaRose www.openlegalblogarchive.org/2026/10/20/l...

@spectrum.ieee.org goes deep on funding restrictions kicking in to keep Chinese components out of future energy projects. China cries foul, yet it's going further, ripping US and European controls out of existing projects. Investigation by Warsaw-based OSW: www.osw.waw.pl/designed-out/

Claim: “The law in Judea and Samaria applies to everyone, regardless of identity or affiliation” Reality: Israel acted when video captured settlers assaulting an American journalist. Palestinians are fair game. wapo.st/4yRwbpy

Correction @nytimes.com editors: Voting rights advocates say the Trump administration IS ALREADY USING the federal government to cast doubt on the election, discourage participation AND delegitimize results. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

Citizen v. Robot. You'd think the cops walking the beat would realize that their jobs are next.

This is me when roboxes hit my neighbourhood

#Zionism today: Masked Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians and veteran @washingtonpost.com photojournalist Heidi Levine, emboldened by the presence of Israeli soldiers. 10 days ago West Bank settlers beat @afp.com photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh with rifle butts.

The world wants EVs. China went big while Detroit. Japan bet on yesterday's technology, and they're taking Thailand's parts manufacturers down with them. A crap bet on the future. That's what this story is really about. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/b...

Victoria bylaw officers trashed newly donated tents within days — contrary to city claims. Investigative reporting by @defactomedia.ca www.defactomedia.ca/bylaw-office...

A new UK prime minister could seize the opportunity to reverse this assault on free speech

Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows

As sand becomes more valuable, Sierra Leone's Mahera Coast grows more vulnerable - Patricia SIA NGEVAO @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/10/as-s...

Europe is testing 10 new ways to turn discarded electronics into critical raw materials—some are further along than you might expect.

There's much more to the 1 percent than Musk and the billionaires one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5981...

Greatest Tradition In All Of Sports, The Iowa Wave 👋🏻 At the end of the 1st Qtr all the fans, players, coaches, refs, everyone waves to the kids in the Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, gets me every time 😭. Caitlin Clark is up there today. The OSU coach is a class act as well! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A real American hero

I compulsively photograph power infrastructure. Marcus Merritt takes grid appreciation to the next level.

In Ohio, a trucker tries to make sense of the moment when Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant, stepped in front of his path. “I keep on thinking about it,” Jack Buhring told @mccrummen.bsky.social:

Evacuation efforts in the surrounded city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine's Kherson region are currently blocked as russian forces refuse to open humanitarian corridors or allow aid access. Residents are suffering severe starvation with no food or Rx deliveries since May. #russiaIsATerroristState

My heart just broke. Thank you, @mccrummen.bsky.social.

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

TEXAS: Placed on a suspend list? Voting remains an option but takes more effort. Change your address by OCT. 5 to avoid the additional paperwork. It takes 2 minutes. Spread the word. #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/zzAixsCV

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

oil slicks are a constant. damning findings from on high. www.euronews.com/2026/09/25/n...

There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.

The world's greatest marine energy resource is the temperature delta between sun-soaked surface waters and frigid depths. Engineers in India are building what could be the first profitable Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant. spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-therma... @spectrum.ieee.org ctrum.ieee.org

William Heronemus — best known for helping launch the modern wind power industry — pushed ocean thermal energy onto the US energy agenda in the 1970s. Half a century later #OTEC's potential as a massive source of baseload renewable energy continues to inspire engineers...

scummy upcharging ploy the @nytimes.com : pay more, or they'll subject you to repeated account verification

NEW RESEARCH: Reckless airport expansion plans will cause 20 major European airports to blow past their carbon limits, with some surpassing their limits almost three times over. 🧵👇